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Air-Cycle
Patent for an air cycle that allows a person to fly by pedaling. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 9, 1912
Creator:
Price, Joseph H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap
Patent for an animal trap whose specially designed cylinders play a crucial role in tiring the animal while it is struggling to escape the trap doors Ultimately, succumbing to exhaustion and hastening its drowning in the trap's water reservoir.
Date:
January 14, 1913
Creator:
Link, William A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Hay Press and Horse Power.
Patent for a combined hay-press and horse-power with illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1884
Creator:
Randle, William, Sr
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve.
Patent for an improvement in the function and use of a valve which gets rid of the wire usually used to raise tank valves. Getting rid of this wire allows for easier drainage.
Date:
January 20, 1914
Creator:
Axtell, Fred W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Generating and Carbureting Hydrogen.
Patent for an apparatus that will improve the cost efficiency of producing gas. Specifically, this invention details a "main tank which produces hydrogen and an auxiliary tank wherein the hydrogen is mixed with crude petroleum oil and thereby given its illuminating and combustible properties" (lines 18-23).
Date:
January 27, 1914
Creator:
Stuart, Charles V.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Aeroplane.
Patent for an airplane (or aeroplane) which provides a large number of control surfaces adjustable by the pilot, including a moveable engine.
Date:
January 7, 1919
Creator:
Millican, Joel Walter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wood-Conveyor
Patent for a wood-conveyor that will "provide a practical device for hauling or conveying wood from a sawing or splitting machine to a convenient place of stacking the wood" (lines 9-12).
Date:
January 2, 1906
Creator:
Hughs, George G.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Tightener.
Patent for a wire-tightener that stretches "the wire after it has been secured to the post, and to take up any slack which may exist therein, owing to causes arising subsequent to the first stretching of the wires" (lines 10-13). It has similar features of other wire-tightener but is simple and efficient.
Date:
January 1, 1895
Creator:
Glenn, John William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Weaving Device.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in Portable wire-weaving device.
Date:
January 11, 1898
Creator:
Murrah, Louis T.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Knob-Fastening.
Patent for improved knob fastening where the door knob will be held in place without the use of screws for increased durability, including illustrations.
Date:
January 27, 1914
Creator:
Collins, Horace B.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Jail Cells.
Patent for new and improved jail cells. This design calls for cell walls constructed of vertical sections secured by through-bolts, tubular bars for the concealment of the through-bolts, wooden corner-posts and sill and head timbers, and outer and main walls lined with sheet-iron (with narrow windows lined with chilled cast-iron) (paras. 15-19).
Date:
January 29, 1878
Creator:
Thomas, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement to Lifting-Jacks
Patent for the improvement of the lifting jack which allows the user to "lower the lifting bar by a step-by-step movement as well as to elevate the lifting bar by such a movement (lines 12-14). Includes instructions and illustration."
Date:
January 12, 1915
Creator:
Parker, Charles W. & Wittliff, Theodore H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive.
Patent for an improved locomotive or traction-engine, with a series of water-shells, each containing "a series of fire-flues, a feeding-water heater, a pipe discharging steam" (lines 118-121), and a double-action plunger-pump.
Date:
January 26, 1897
Creator:
McCallum, Daniel W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Valve-Motion.
Patent for "a variable cut-off valve-motion, and has for its object to provide simple and efficient and at the same time readily adjustable means for varying the points at which the ports communicating with the cylinder of a locomotive or other engine are opened and closed, in accordance with the load, the desired speed, &c." (Lines 8-15) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 1, 1895
Creator:
Shelb, Peter J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Tube-Fastenings for Boilers.
Patent for improvement of tube-fastenings for boilers which will secure flues in steam-boilers, including illustrations.
Date:
January 28, 1879
Creator:
Walsh, William H.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Automatic Brake-Setting Mechanism for Pneumatic Brakes.
Patent for improvements in pneumatic brakes with simple construction for higher efficiency in trains including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 5, 1915
Creator:
Weldon, Robert J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Stationary Boiler.
Patent for a new and useful improvements in stationary boilers for " marine, locomotive, and stationary purposes" (line 14- 15).
Date:
January 4, 1898
Creator:
McCallum, Daniel W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Spark Plug for Internal-Combustion Engines
Patent for an improved automobile spark-plug with both insulated and non-insulated cylinders that will activate with any spark to the device.
Date:
January 18, 1915
Creator:
Loose, Robert D.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gage Cock
Patent for gage cock.
Date:
January 30, 1917
Creator:
Lang, Victor A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump
Patent for a pump whereby for use with deep wells. Pump uses relate to oil, water, sand and other articles. Illustration included.
Date:
January 1, 1907
Creator:
Butler, Thomas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pump Operating Apparatus
Patent for improved pump operated apparatus
Date:
January 9, 1917
Creator:
Schilder, John J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grass-Cutter
Patent for a grass cutter adapted to be mounted on some part of a train of cars. The object of this invention is to provide a cutter which will cut the grass from railway tracks and to adapt the device for easy attachment to a truck of the car.
Date:
January 4, 1916
Creator:
Doak, John S.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Electrically-Heated Instrument.
Patent for an electrically-heated instrument. This scissor-like instrument has an electrically-heated edge that can be used to simultaneously sever and cauterize.
Date:
January 6, 1914
Creator:
Chapman, Joseph A.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Float Valve
Patent for a float value. This invention is designed to automatically close. Illustration included.
Date:
January 29, 1907
Creator:
Axtell, Fred W.
System:
The Portal to Texas History